The share of New Jersey workers walking to work has held steady at 2.7 percent from 2000 to 2004, though it did increase slightly in 2002. This is better than the trend nationally, which declined 11 percent.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey, 2000-2004. |
Walking is focused in urban areas of northern Jersey and in the Trenton area, though counties such Atlantic and Cape May also show significant walking rates, possibly because shore tourism-based economies rely on clustered beach-front villages (and Atlantic City).
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Decennial Census, 2000. |
Census data on walking and cycling, while most consistent and available at a fine geographic scale, only considers the trip to work (comprising about 20 percent of all trips), and then only looks at the mode used most frequently and for the greatest distance.
However, data from the Federal Highway Administration's periodic survey of travel behavior examines mode choice for all trips. According to that survey, the share of all trips made on foot has grown 30 percent from 1995 to 2001, to almost eleven percent of trips. Bicycling grew slightly during that period, to not quite 1 percent of total trips.
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Source: FHWA. Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, 1995 and National Household Travel Survey, 2001. |